analysts also say the violence in afghanistan is being precipitated by local security forces which contain drug addicts and those connected to the taliban despite this nato began handing control over one of the country's thirty four provinces to the locals on sunday but there's concern there too divided untrained and ill equipped to fend off the insurgency by themselves jason mug like reports from kabul. there's confusion on the faces of the afghan army soldiers as a firefight unfolds on the other side of the wall lucky for them this is the kabul military training center in the bullets being fired i mean here halfway through a ten week program the officers don't cut the many slack when it's over the be deployed eastern crude or province of afghanistan's most violent corners the mob decided not to default we must push down hard so they can die for under pressure day by day we're making progress the afghan national army has already come a long way its ranks have swollen to about one hundred seventy thousand troops

thanks to fresh waves of recruits attracted by higher wages and extra perks the soldiers insist they are all united in their desire to be back to tell about a minute insurgency age or ethnicity then any army are old brother and we are all calling my one. was right the call of duty has also struck a chord beyond able bodied males a first ever class of women soldiers has just graduated. and there's even the mujahideen unit made up of four of them veterans of the anti soviet yeah this is all good news to u.s. military planners say the two thousand and fourteen need to hand over security responsibilities to the afghans the afghan army enjoys a much better reputation in the police force and has even been featured in the recent movie. but is the army takes greater responsibility for security around the country there are concerns that the quantity of troops may be coming at the expense of quality that was started as more than eighty percent of troops are illiterate a big problem on our ability to reimagine numbers can spell the difference between

life and death adding to the woes are widespread drug use and desertion it's today roughly one in four combat soldiers quit their post critics also point out that the military leadership is made up of many rival x. warlords who still command loyalties along regional in their declines you could leave the country deeply. as the u.s. begins to scale back its role as custodian this summer there are concerns that these divisions may flare up if i was not neutral. you need to be. fighting each of. these. little groups to control. yet another obstacle for a young army that still has much to do for the students who. called them and a few minutes on r t the green card immigrants who are now seeing red after playing america citizenship lottery there are now being told no entry to their new lives will tell you why. their resignations keep coming in the british newspaper phone

hacking scandal now that the u.k.'s most senior police officer has quit sir paul stephenson was facing a growing backlash over hiring a former news of the world executive as an advisor who was later questioned about illicit phone tapping the axe police commissioner also it was a swipe at the prime minister saying his choice of the visor was a worst decision namely former editor and he calls it a day of rapid developments rebecca brooks who ran the paper was arrested as part of the investigation she quit on friday astral projection of tate and is due to join him and son james facing m.p.'s on tuesday over unethical reporting methods and police bribery media alice filreis says paying officers for information has been going on for years. but this is a good example of what the police have been doing in the kind of murdoch years they've been using a rest they've been leaking they've been paid for telling people where the celebrities have been arrested so actually manipulating the rest of people is

actually a practice it has become in trying now in my view as a result of the kind of bribery thing so this would hardly be out of practice if it but i don't think it's going to deflect opinion i mean there are so many m.p.'s now and indeed so much of the british establishment which for so long kowtow to murdoch is now prepared to get to the bottom of this and weed out those people who have been corrupted at different levels remember that for. years ago right the police had these bags with i think it was eleven thousand letters about four thousand celebrities and victims of crime and all these other people they knew they were taking part investigation these bags were just left there i mean it's amazing it's remarkable that it took four years for them to do anything about this meanwhile senior police officers were wining and dining with members of the murdoch empire they were they were meeting them for drinks privately one even at a thousand pounds a day to work for him so you know what does this tell us about the relationship between the police and the news corp employees well it's very very serious and if

this can happen at the top of the police look at the example that gives the officers down down the lines now you could well ask you know can any organization properly examine itself but so much is that stake that if that operation is seen to be corrupted as well i think we've got you know an even bigger problem i think so many people now are watching it including you know members of parliament select committees these are the investigative bodies within the british political system they're all all eyes are on this let alone all the journalists who are looking at what's going on so i think that the ramifications of this is so big i mean you know britain is it is shaking at this each day it's headline news and people are asking who's next the timing our back iraq's arrest is raising our few eyebrows former british intelligence officer any mesh on says it's more than a coincidence. it's very unusual to have someone this close to the heart the heart of power in the u.k.

being arrested but i suppose based on the prima factual evidence around this case it would be unavoidable for the police not to arrest having said that of course it is a very long journey from arrest to being charged to being put on trial and to be convicted so i suppose i'd be more surprised if if she were charging if this does proceed towards a legal hearing i have to say that i think is the timing of this arrest is very interesting because it's highly highly unusual for someone to be a prearranged arrest to turn themselves into a police station and go through the rest process on a sunday and of course is just two days before she was due to appear before a parliamentary committee so now what she's going to sort of get out of jail free card i can't possibly talk about this it is subject to legal proceedings so in a way i suppose one hundred slightly suspicious turn of mind one might think that the police taking the step at this stage. allowing her little wriggle room where she didn't have to say too much and perhaps also would have to say too much about the leaks of the police service in london as well so it's very very interesting timing. this is our life from moscow and on the way the seventy year await is

nearly over that's when the last world war two era war crime suspects from paris to learn his fate we reported from hungary. the cruiser that sank in of all guys due to be lifted later on monday once the vessel is moved off its side in what is one of the operations most difficult stages attempts to put the ship on an even keel resumed after a balancing sling ruptured on sunday the next task is to search the river bed for fifteen missing victims and raise the bow twenty meters to the surface investigators and relatives hope then that adds definitive answers can be found as to why the ship sank but recovery crews say the work is complicated because of vessels stuck in the silt at the bottom of the volga bulgaria went down in minutes leaving more than half of the two hundred eight passengers with no chance to skate one of russia's worst ever water disasters. are you economists closely

following the recovery operation has the bad ground to the tragedy keep up to date there and there's also were you to challenge for all our video reports of a salvage mission. russia's northern caucasus has been shaken by two deadly blast four policemen were killed and ten other people wounded in the explosions are just medina caution about who's in the region has more. last twenty four hours have seen two dadley blast hansa russia's north caucasus now the first one happening chain two policemen were killed and seven others injured when an explosion hit a search operation in the mountainous area now the second one the republic of dagestan late at night it was a roadside bomb to produce men dads in three august ones it's now the bomb did tonight says when the patrol car was driving through the city of cars which is situated in the republic ulfa di gets down you know the explosion was

a quick quiver then two four kilograms alpha t.n.t. and these two blasts happened in the wake of the recent terror raids that was launched in the republic of dagestan two days ago since the start of this yeah there has been a number of tourists and successful anti terror raids and according to russia's in terra ministry the number of terrorist attacks declined since the start of the two thousand and eleven compounce of the same period as the year before but still i despise this number as this is a big number of terror raids and the fact that it doesn't terrorist were killed this is the start of this yes still the potential terrorist threat remains high in the region and there are two regions where gangs mostly action in the republic and the republic. but you know caution reporting from the north caucasus there. now one of the last remaining nazi war crimes suspects will soon learn his

fate in the hungarian courts ninety seven year old pirro was charged was a massacre killing civilian hostages in serbia he was discovered living in budapest in two thousand and six and is one of the few left to stand trial for holocaust crimes reports from hungary. it's been described as the world's most wanted nazi now he stands accused of the participation in the ne tourist massacre in the city of no he said in one thousand nine hundred eighty one thousand two hundred jewish and serbian people were killed by hunger in forces now the prosecution say that though he is directly responsible for the deaths the thirty six jewish people thirty thing with pits in a lorry and driven away to be shot the courts already been adjourned he complained that he couldn't understand what was being said and the judge in the trial said that she wasn't sure that this kena was even fully aware of what was going on and so an adjournment was cools and in order for him to receive

a hearing and mental health assessment and that is being restarted in the verdict expected to be good if it's a day that he's one of the last remaining suspected war criminals he was tried and convicted in one thousand nine hundred forty four but that conviction was quashed off to the fascist government came into power in the same year the defense here is saying that according to hunger in law you can't convict someone of the same offense twice the prosecution is saying that doesn't stand up as his previous acquittal was due to political considerations and not evidence now just a few months ago in may we saw the trial of eve on dimon you come to an end he was sentenced to five years and the prosecution in this case has said that they've been pushing for that business sentence and that's certainly going to be the verdict that they're hoping for today. so our first reporting there on more stories developing around the world this hour rebels are carrying out an assault on government forces in the eastern town of bragg home to one of the country's biggest

oil facilities nato has also been targeting program off the forces in the area was days of intense bombardment the alliance is trying to muster support for the rebels have suffered heavy losses in recent days cut off he made another defined speech at the weekend denying rumors he was leaving libya as he struggles to quell the months long revolt. more lethal clashes in syria this time between pro and anti-government protesters around syria are thought to have died as a fighting worsened when people began using fire arms against each other last week three supporters of president assad were kidnapped and killed and they are dismembered bodies returned to their relatives and a government demos crackdowns are thought to have killed over thirteen hundred people since they began in january. egypt's interim leader is have undertaken a massive government reshuffle after public anger over a slow post revolution to form most of the points are too relative newcomers who

are not linked with the regime of x. leader hosni mubarak there are also conflicting reports about the president's health his lawyer says mubarak is in a coma which doctors deny. it as well as president has transferred some powers to his ministers while he returns to cuba for cancer treatment this is battle with illness has raised doubts over his fitness to lead the country but officially he still plans to run for reelection next year but as well a based journalist says he's political rivals are exploiting serious illness. the functions that he's delegated our administrative in nature and i mean there are things that he could continue to do i mean he's not going to be mentally incapacitated you know he's just going to be physically distant and you know is going undergoing treatment but he still will remain in front of government i mean the activated electronic signatures that he can sign a document is going to be via teleconference on different cabinet meetings the

opposition was primarily speculating and pushing for him to go to brazil i mean it just so happens you know the opposition in venezuela is very right wing and is very anti cuban were he to have chosen to go to brazil i don't think that their attitude would have been the same whatsoever or he'd have chosen to go to the united states they probably wouldn't have said a word about it so they are being exploited by the u.s. and in fact for and together with those on the opposition through a sort of a psychological campaign in media just trying to portray this perception of a weak charges of an ailing charges of in germany real charges and those sectors in venezuela that try somehow to say that this is a power vacuum or i would just remind people that in the united states ronald reagan had a three cancers during his presidency and he was going to the most remembered presidents of the united states nasa's hubble telescope has been a space watching war course for two lonely decades but now gets to share the job of

revealing the universe's biggest mysteries a russian eye in the sky is on its way to help out and it's packing the sharpest tools and an l. galaxy. was at a baikonur cosmodrome in castle stan to see it off. this is the moment to russian space scientists have been waiting for for decades the space observatory it creaked with the cutting edge telescope a huge top and universe explorer ation as an enormous i will be able to see further and deeper than ever before it with the possible to observe the most mysterious the doc and the most shadowed corners of our galaxy and other galaxies as well and stars even it will be able to observe black holes and shed light on their dog nature these few to know most i will be able to provide detailed images detailed pictures of the universe with a resolution ten thousand times shop of then america's possible so we can see something is happening as well i'll let you enjoy the moment.

but i'm going to stick really well but if you are going to that's not going to fall out of tony i'll be ready to strong and i can take control center here at some other time with me it's over for what i do a strong to unfold it's twenty seven people and make everything ready to work with a nine month old to we will sit tall to receive the first results means the first images of the universe from that roof an ocean a hottie reported from baikonur. while the telescope takes its place russia's space agency boss tells r.t. in the next hour of what he hopes. for in scientists not the russian ones

seven or telescope is more interesting than the hubble space telescope in terms of making new findings it's a very profound science that implies a high degree of relativity of the final result it's difficult to forecast anything here the telescope makes it possible to monitor the emergence of new stars and galaxies in a radio frequency band to see how the whole process goes on gov of some statistical data on the basis of which it would be possible to predict the dynamics of development of our comet on the universe and to understand where we have all come from is that waiting for us in the future in this respect this is a historical event which marks russia's return to space science. it can be tough getting a green card to live in america but every year thousands randomly hit the jackpot or so they thought the courts rolled the latest lottery a list just isn't arbitrary enough ad is terry immigrants invites or just got to

check out explains. hoping for a better life in america. from nigeria applied for the green card lottery he won or so it said in the letter that he received from the state department almost two weeks later the us voided the results of the lottery for some twenty two thousand people including a kuchuk war that i want to lots and for a four star and a lottery. it's one from each year the u.s. state department grants green cards to some fifty thousand people from around the globe the lottery where the jackpot is the right to live and work in america is advertised as completely random the state department claims in this case there was a computer glitch and the results were not arbitrary and a computer programming error caused more than ninety percent of the selectees to come from the first two days of the registration period the victims of the blunder

have joined in a class action suit against the u.s. state department and lost the court here has been struggling with the randomness asking how could the results of the green card lottery not be random even if there had been a computer glitch as the state department claims one of the arguments is that even in the era like that could produce a random result then the whole idea behind the green card lottery is that whoever you are whatever you do you can win it but this case could very well undermine that perception experts specializing in information technology say the decision of the state department as well as the court that dismissed the case defies simple logic rhonda means that if only record tracks are on your cd player when you hit the ram to move you may get tracks three four and five even then track twelve that's still run to the state department has brought up intricate technical arguments to explain the blunder but thousands of its victims say they have the feeling that someone has

gambled with their lives we believe that america. going to shut down our t.v. washington d.c. . well yes why no green cards are required for your axes all areas pass to our website and here's what's lining up now at our. fabulous more than eight hundred national show from the greatest russian jeweler of all time as part of buckingham palace. and a formula one frenzy in the heart of moscow we report on the. annual city. for more.

soon we go behind bars to sample the tough life in russia. that's coming shortly before that it will take a look at what's happening in the world of business with matt. hello and welcome to business bulletin i'm matt trezise good to have you with us european banks are starting the week on the back foot most relieved that passing the stress test but there is still wide open to solve or in shock from bad debt in the u.s. and europe investment analysts though think that could open doors for russian lenders. the german banks in particular were exposed to toxic assets in the united states. the german banks for example were exposed to iceland they had nineteen billion dollars of exposure to iceland. and the irish banks the english banks are also not feeling very well. the. u.s.

banks are still suffering from their exposure to toxic assets so within their salary within the euro asian market the russian banks which has gone through the crisis relatively well are actually in a position. with cash to go out and spend money and buy up. relatively good assets in in europe and so this purchase by spared by of international is a first step and we may see some of the commercial banks. following suit doing the same sort of thing. former boss of b.p. is considering a bid for two major russian oil firms sky news quotes people close to tony hayward saying he's interested in both ross nafta and bashing that the two companies are currently majority owned by holding company cases demo with stakes were thirteen billion dollars the deal is one of a series of targets hayward is looking at for his investment vehicle which he

co-founded with billionaire nat rothschild hayward stepped down as b.p. c.e.o. a year ago following criticism of his handling of the oil spill in the gulf of mexico he's now head of b.p.'s a russian venture and kate b.p. . take a look at those markets now while lower with investors concerned about a worsening debt crisis in europe may slow the economy and weigh on the fuel demand . european stocks extending last week's losses as the stress test results have shown lenders may have to raise additional cash banks are leading the downside rally energy majors are following the lead as crude edges low here in moscow markets are tracking overseas trends investors are waiting for this week's summit which the leaders will once again try and find a solution to the greek debt problem market players also looking across the pond there's no clarity with the possible increase of debt ceiling in the u.s. despite president obama asking to raise it immediately to take

a look at some individual share moves on the ice ax mostly blue chips are trading in the red but is bucking that trend after it published a seventy percent increase in net profit for the first quarter of the year among miners polly metal once again on the rise as investors look for a safe haven in gold related assets and l m k is in negative territory after reporting three percent growth in steel production for the second quarter. industrial output is speeding up in russia it grew almost six percent in june year on year compared with four percent in may car production a key driver with the sector benefiting from higher demand and investment activity analysts expect even faster. growth in the coming months amid low interest rates and cooling inflation. about brings you up to date paul be back in the next hour with more business news and you can always check us out at r.t. dot com slash business headlines next stay with us on r.t. .

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welcome back you're watching live from moscow these are the top stories the taliban take out another target on the or nato collaborators list as foreign troops begin withdrawing while leaving a questionable local force in charge the obgyn army is known for having numerous drug addicts and people links to insurgency. while another is bail the murdoch media misconduct sees britain's most senior policeman quit over connections to journalists specter of bribery and phone hacking while x. news international chief are back is arrested. and a cosmic companion for the hubble telescope has brushes on one eye and a sky gets ready to seek out the secrets of our universe there are

a new restaurant both a much higher resolution and its nasa cars and. russia's prisons are renowned for being rough on their inmates and now the jail systems in the dog ripe for reform party explains that's next. up up up. and complains. i. guess the catch. the pulse of life for the sake of my wife and kids. according to statistics one out of every four men in russia has served time in prison currently nearly nine hundred found inmates are serving time in prison colony most of them have committed serious crimes. breaks into a quarantine if they see a mix of the old penitentiary system and then you. initially the russian pain your

system had inherited the legacy of stalin's notorious killers. but now it is going through a period differ from the likes of which have never been seen before. everyone here has to decide whether or not they're going to change their ways go edging toward needs to see that it's happening what kind of changes are already in place behind the barbed wire and will modernization benefit both the inmates prison staff. convicted coverley on all of masterminding the murder of a fellow businessman and sentenced him to seventeen years so he has spent several months in one of moscow's investigative isolation wards now pavo is due to be transferred to a prison colony. face to will. spread their legs for a job.